Our Summer Migrants: An Account of the Migratory Birds which Pass the Summer in the British IslandsBickers and Son, 1875 - 336 páginas |
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... frequent in- equality in the size of eggs in the same nest — a peculiarity which does not seem to have been previously noticed . In Portugal it appears to be only an occasional summer visitant , appa- rently not straying so far westward ...
... frequent in- equality in the size of eggs in the same nest — a peculiarity which does not seem to have been previously noticed . In Portugal it appears to be only an occasional summer visitant , appa- rently not straying so far westward ...
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... frequently noticed , save by the patient . observer , than some other species of greater rarity . " In the sheltered and wooded districts of the midland and southern counties , " he adds , " it is one of the most attractive songsters ...
... frequently noticed , save by the patient . observer , than some other species of greater rarity . " In the sheltered and wooded districts of the midland and southern counties , " he adds , " it is one of the most attractive songsters ...
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... are a little spread out , as is the case with those of many other birds of this order , as the Stonechat and Whinchat . " I feel sure , notwithstanding this • opinion , that I have frequently observed horizontal movement THE REDSTART . 75.
... are a little spread out , as is the case with those of many other birds of this order , as the Stonechat and Whinchat . " I feel sure , notwithstanding this • opinion , that I have frequently observed horizontal movement THE REDSTART . 75.
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... frequently observed horizontal movement . Its mode of progression on the ground has been compared by the same observer to that of the Wheatear , " for it neither walks nor runs , " he says , " but advances by leaps . " I cannot ...
... frequently observed horizontal movement . Its mode of progression on the ground has been compared by the same observer to that of the Wheatear , " for it neither walks nor runs , " he says , " but advances by leaps . " I cannot ...
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... a very familiar bird , frequently perching on house - tops and garden walls , and building in holes and crannies in the the neighbourhood of man's dwelling . L THE SEDGE WARBLER . EAVING the woods , gardens 80 OUR SUMMER MIGRANTS .
... a very familiar bird , frequently perching on house - tops and garden walls , and building in holes and crannies in the the neighbourhood of man's dwelling . L THE SEDGE WARBLER . EAVING the woods , gardens 80 OUR SUMMER MIGRANTS .
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Our Summer Migrants: An Account of the Migratory Birds which Pass the Summer ... James Edmund Harting Visualização integral - 1877 |
Our Summer Migrants: An Account of the Migratory Birds which Pass the Summer ... James Edmund Harting Visualização integral - 1875 |
Our Summer Migrants: An Account of the Migratory Birds which Pass the Summer ... James Edmund Harting Visualização integral - 1889 |
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amongst Anthus appearance April arrival Blackcap Blyth breed British Birds British Islands Canon Tristram Chiff-chaff claw coast colour common congeners Cuckoo eastward eggs Egypt England Europe feathers Flycatcher frequently Garden Warbler genus Grasshopper Warbler grey ground habits hatched haunts Hist Hoopoe Howard Saunders Ibis India insects instance Ireland June Landrail Lapland Lesser Whitethroat Lord Lilford male Malta Martin Meadow Pipit Mediterranean migration month naturalists neighbourhood nest Nightingale Nightjar Norfolk North Africa noticed observed occasionally occurrence Ornithology Palestine palustris plumage Professor Newton rare Redstart Reed Warbler regular summer remarked resembles Rock Pipit says Scotland season Sedge Warbler seen September Shetland shot song southward species specimens spotted spring and autumn Stonechat strepera summer migrants summer visitant Sussex Swallow Swift tail throughout tion Tree Pipit trees Wheatear Whinchat Willow Warbler Willow Wren wind wing winter quarters Wood Warbler Yarrell Yellow Wagtail Zoologist